Pay cut
As I thought, there are some ramifications with getting switched back to working with my old boss. I'm not too pleased about it. So currently for every dollar that the company makes for a candidate that I place, I get around 7%. So in the past month, my commission check was around $700. Not too shabby. That pays a substantial portion of my rent. So now, under the new system, because I'm working under my old boss again, I'm only going to be making 1/2 the commissions that I should be. Which, isn't all that bad, it's just money afterall, but it still sucks. The other option was to quit. So I figure that I should just suck it up and deal with getting a little less money than I was making. The good thing is that the people that I currently have working under me are still billed to me at the same rate and they are looking like they'll continue to work for quite some time, so at least I'll keep making the $400 or so from my 3 quality people that I have working for me.
I've yet to hear back from the Hedge fund guy that I sent my resume to. I sent him another email today and hopefully he'll give me a call back today. I may end up going to Austin this next weekend, so that would be fun and nifty. I just wonder where I'll be staying and how much it'll cost me to get down there and move around. We'll see.
This morning was a great relief. I finally got my federal tax return forwarded to my bank account. So I'm not $2800 richer. :) Fucking awesome. Not that I don't have plenty of places to spend that money on, like rent and credit card debt (It's only $1000...so get off my back!) and hopefully paying for a trip to Austin. Either way, my finances are looking up, so that's a good thing.
My task for tonight is to look through my records and see if I can find out how much money was kept from me in 2003 from my New York State taxes and how much I got refunded.... apparently that information isn't available over the phone. The only way to get it is to send a paper request to the freaking photocopy office in Albany. So that'll take me at least another 3 weeks before I'll see all the extra money from the 2003 Mis-Filed return. Oh well... good things come to those that wait.
So last night I spent a considerable ammount of time looking through Facebookfinding all the people that I haven't seen for years that I knew from school. It's always interesting to see who's on there and what they are up to. Well...not thatinteresting but at least something to do.
So I've got a gripe. It's with Google. I've submitted my blog to them probably like 3-4 different times. It's STILL not on there. That kind of pisses me off. So I did a little research to find out why my blog, which is updated pretty much 3-4 times a week, doesn't get any exposure. Turns out that you have to have other people linking to your blog in order for the "Internet Spiders" to crawl the web and find it. Bastards. So it looks like I have to start making some online friends. Irritating. Oh well.
Now that I have glommed down my PB&J (yes, I brought another today) I think that I should go and get some work done, so off I go to do the same ammount of work for 1/2 the money...I guess that's how it feels to be a woman. (Ouch.)